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Jackie Robinson statue cut off at ankles, stolen from park
Headline from ABC 7 San Francisco
Authorities are offering up to $7,500 in rewards for tips after a statue of baseball legend Jackie Robinson was stolen from a park in Wichita, Kansas.
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The statue honors the first player to break Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947. Surveillance video was released of two people hauling the sculpture away in the dark. Wichita police said in a Facebook post that it went missing Thursday morning.
A Kansas town is in uproar after a prized Jackie Robinson statue was stolen from a public park. Wichita police on Friday were still searching for the statue of the baseball legend and civil rights icon, which was cut at the ankles and hauled away Thursday.
The bronze statue of the first Black major leaguer was at a park that hosts a youth league named in his honor. The theft came days before Black History Month.
A bronze life-size statue of the baseball player who broke racial barriers in 1947 was cut at its ankles, leaving behind just its shoes and the statue’s base.
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